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Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language.
Kievan Rus
The original literature in Kievan Rus was written in the Church Slavonic and was strong between the 11th and 13th centuries. One major work was the Tale of Bygone Years by Nestor. Another key work includes the Slovo o polhu Ihorevi (The tale of Igor's campaign).
Decline of Rus and Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth period
The Ostrih Bible was printed in 1581. Other works included anonymous Perestoroha and the writing of Hypatius Ponti
Bandura
The sixteenth century included the folk epics called dumy. These songs celebrated the activities of the Cossacks.
The Aenied
The father of Ukrainian literature in the recognized form of the Ukrainian language itself is Ivan Kotlyarevsky, who wrote a travesty of Virgil's Aeneid. It used the Cossacks as the heroes of the epic and often used common, peasant language.
Romantic Period
Shevchenko
Realism
Modernism, Expressionism, and Impressionism
As all European countries, literature in Ukraine was involved in the modernism process. Topics of feminism were raised in the works of Lesya Ukrainka and Olha Kobylyanska. Other two important writers were Valerian Pidmohylny and Viktor Petrov. Their writing was inspired by existentialism.
Revolution and Avant Garde
Soviet Realism and 1960s opening
Post-Communist writing
Ukrainian writers list
Ukrainian writers include: Hryhori Skovoroda, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Taras Shevchenko, Marko Vovchok, Panteleimon Kulish, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Olha Kobylianska, Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Khvylovy, Valerian Pidmohylny,V. Domontovych,Mykola Kulish, Mykola Bazhan, Maksym Rylsky, Mykola Zerov, Mykhail Semenko, Ostap Vyshnia, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Olena Teliha, Oles Honchar, Vasyl Symonenko, Lina Kostenko, Ivan Drach, Yevhen Hutsalo, Hryhir Tiutiunnyk, Pavlo Zahrebelny, Valerii Shevchuk, Ihor Kalynets, Emma Andiievska, Vasyl Stus, Yurii Andrukhovych, Oksana Zabuzhko, Ivan Bahrianyi, Oleksandr Bejderman
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